💻 Remote work is the new normal for millions of employees.

But who actually wants to work from home?

Our newly published paper shows: culture matters. People from more individualistic cultures — where autonomy & independence are prized — are much more likely to work remotely.

Free Primary Education is widely seen as a tool to promote long-term growth, but in a new working paper (🚨),
@eleonoraguarnieri.bsky.social, Helmut Rainer and I show that the effects are more immediate and wide-reaching, with FPE leading to reduced fertility and greater female empowerment.

Assistant professor in economics of education We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as an assistant professor (associate senior lecturer) in economics of education.   What w

📢Job alert!!
Join us in Lund as Assistant Professor in Economics of Education (tenure-track).

💡Fantastic place, great people, excellent data. Reach out if you have any questions!

📮Deadline: August 11, 2025
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Congratulations @juliusilciukas.bsky.social!!

We've wrapped up the 2025 #CESifo/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
🙏Thank you to @alexeble.bsky.social and Alexander Willen for their inspiring keynotes!
👏to @stnavdeev.com for winning the Best Paper Award for 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘰𝘵: 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

Very excited to present our paper on the effects of AI on student learning (w/ Catalina Franco & Siri Isaksson) in Munich next week!

📣 We’re hiring! 📣

Join @woessmann.bsky.social and my team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social as a PhD student to conduct super-exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education 🤩🚀

Reach out if you have any questions! 💪🏻🙏🏻

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Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉
@science.org

We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡

Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!

Details ⤵️

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy"

By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social

Thanks so much @hhsievertsen.bsky.social for this great summary of our paper😊